OLDaily

By Stephen Downes
October 26, 2004

This
is Simply Smarter BroadcastingSimple outline
and link
to a half hour MP3 summary of podcasting. "It's nothing
more than Internet radio at its core, folks. It's audio,
on-demand, that's easily synchronized with your computer
system / portable media device... in theory." Don't forget,
you can hear this broadcast on Ed Radio
(invented long before podcasting). By Chris Pirillo,
C:\PIRILLO.EXE ~ Chris Pirillo, October 26, 2004
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WikinewsShould Wikinews launch? "Wikinews is a proposed project
with the goal to collaboratively report and summarize news
on all subjects from a neutral point of view. This proposal
describes the project goals, and outlines five basic
requirements for the project. If it is implemented, there
will be Wikinews communities in many languages. The precise
implementation of the Wikinews requirements is left up to
these individual communities." By Various Authors, October
26, 2004
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Life-long
Learning’s Usual Suspects"Efforts to lure
people to new educational technologies and to promote a
culture of life-long learning resemble a case of preaching
to the converted, according to a new UK study... a new
study suggests that education in the digital age largely
attracts the ‘usual suspects’ – in the UK, at least." By
Unattributed, Europa, October, 2004
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Customer
Training Is Outsourcing’s Hottest TrendCustomer training isn't a new application of e-learning;
for years whenasked to name a quality e-learning
application I would refer to Macromedia Director's built-in
training application. But we don't notice customer training
as a type of e-learning because it has been done so badly -
Microsoft Help, anyone? Anyhow, customer training is now
the next big thing in e-learning outsourcing, according to
this article. I have to say - it couldn't hurt. By Paul
Harris, Learning Circuits, October, 2004
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Song-Swap
Networks Still HummingCD sales are increasing
again; this must mean that file sharing has slowed, right?
No. File sharing is also increasing. "In general we observe
that P2P activity has not diminished," says the study,
which will be presented at IEEE Globecom 2004 next month.
"On the contrary, P2P traffic represents a significant
amount of internet traffic and is likely to continue to
grow in the future, RIAA behavior notwithstanding." When
sharing increases, sales increase. When sharing is reduced
- as it was, briefly, when Napster was shut down - sales
are reduced. The current increase in CD sales is because
of - not in spite of - increased file sharing. By Katie
Dean, Wired News, October 25, 2004
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